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Google had Autofill capability that can figure out day of the week, a date in a month, or a number in sequential order. Now, with the Smart Autofill add-on, Google is do much more with numbers and words by drawing on its Prediction API, an application programming interface that considers existing numbers or categories and then creates a model to make reasonable approximations.What it does:

Autofills one column of data based on the values of the other columns.Smart Autofill add-on uses Machine Learning via the Google Prediction API (https://cloud.google.com/prediction/) to fill missing values in a column of data, based on other data in the column and the data in adjacent columns.It will look for patterns in the rows of data where there are values present in the column, and apply them to fill in the missing values of the column.

Dear friends and members of the open source community,It is with great sadness that we inform you that Ian Murdock passed away on Monday night. This is a tragic loss for his family, for the Docker community, and the broader open source world; we all mourn his passing. To Ian’s children, family and loved ones, we offer our full support and deepest sympathies.Ian was perhaps best known professionally as the founder of the Debian project, which he created while still a student at Purdue University, where he earned his bachelor’s degree in computer science in 1996. Debian was one of the first Linux distros to be forged, and it is widely regarded as a one of the most successful open-source projects ever launched. Ian helped pioneer the notion of a truly open project and community, embracing open design and open contribution; in fact the formative document of the open source movement itself (the Open Source Definition) was originally a Debian position statement. It is a testament to Ian’s …

Linux and Open source advocate Nixie Pixel (aka Nicole Allen) has set up a Patreon Channel to help fund full time video content development. With 801 patrons Nicole has raised $8,485.05 per month.http://www.patreon.com/nixiepixel?rf=46698